Joseph Gatt Partially buried cannons, recyled as fencing posts, enclosing part of Palace Square; the 'nofs għonnella' (which contrasts strongly with the earlier full 'għonnella'); a poor barefoot boy; a pair of sentries next to the Palace entrace, standing guard at the very same spot that today's soldiers also guard; a chaplain's cassock and distinctive black 'tricorno' hat — Charles Frederick de Brocktorff’s 1822 watercolour is bursting with lavish, historical details.